Xavier Thibault

Thirty-year-old Thomas has to face facts and accept to forget about his dreams of becoming a film director. But this weekend, his short film is selected in a small, country festival. His last festival before letting it all go. He hopes, for once, to win the prize.He will return from the event with much more.

Aline never managed to get closure from the death of her 17-year-old son in a street fight. When she sees the assai- lant recently released from prison, she decides to cook up a plan to avenge her dead son. Things go unexpectedly as she gets to know the young man and her determination is tested.

Yannis (15) and his mother are moving in at her boyfriend’s apartment. Yannis starts hanging out with Olga (40), a socially secluded hard rock woman who lives in the basement of his apartment building. Simultaneously, he associates with a group of teenagers, the leader of which bullies Olga whenever he sees her.

The son wrote a comic book about his childhood. He sent it to his father who’s been living in the south for years. But the father didn’t really care about reading that story where he is drawn naked in most panels.

No matter the cost, Yacine and his two pals want to see Fast & Furious 8 at the multiplex in the high rise suburb where they live. Unfortunately for them, they can only afford to see the cine-club session. For Yacine, what was meant to be a strategy transforms into an amazing experience.

O nigeriano Amadi procura seu irmão Ikenna na cidade de São Paulo. Aos poucos percebe que o supostamente bem sucedido professor de matemática inventou para sua família uma narrativa imaginária de sua vida no Brasil. Amadi descobre lentamente a verdade em uma missão pelo submundo da cidade.

Akihiro, a native japanese filmmaker living in Paris, came to Japan to interview survivors for a documentary celebrating the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. Deeply moved by the interviews, he decided to take a break and wanders through the city during which he meets Michiko, a merry and enigmatic young woman. Michiko takes him for a joyful and improvised journey from the city towards the sea where the horrors of the past are mingled to the simplicity of the present.

Nos terraços dos edifícios, ao longo da cidade de Alger, são apreciadas cinco histórias cheias de conflitos que vão desde a religião, até a violência e intolerância. Um lugar que reflete a situação de todo um país.

Extremistas islâmicos semeiam terror entre os habitantes da região montanhosa da Argélia. Rashid (Nabil Asli), um jovem jihadista, se arrependeu de fazer parte da organização, deixou o movimento para trás e foi procurar abrigo em sua aldeia natal. De acordo com a lei, ele terá anistia concedida se entregar sua arma para a polícia local, mas isso não será capaz de apagar os crimes que Rashid cometeu no passado. O jovem acaba se envolvendo numa trama de violência, segredos e manipulação.

A fairy is invited for lunch by Gertrude Stein, and suddenly the world changes.

Equipado com pouco mais do que uma bússola e uma câmera, o cineasta Laurent Hasse viaja pela França e reflete sobre a felicidade e o sentido da vida.

Você não sabe quem somos…

The story is simply set around a couple fighting at the breakfast table. All is well, nothing out of the ordinary. Steph announces to his life partner Flippy, the mascot bear for Flipp’s cereals, that he wishes to go to Japan to fulfill his childhood’s dream: study at a Ninja school.

In 1914, the Czech architect Jan Letzel designed in the Japanese city of Hiroshima Center for the World Expo, which has turned into ruins after the atomic bombing in August 1945. “Atomic Dome” – all that remains of the destroyed palace of the exhibition – has become part of the Hiroshima memorial. In 2007, French sculptor, painter and film director Jean-Gabriel Périot assembled this cinematic collage from hundreds of multi-format, color and black and white photographs of different years’ of “Genbaku Dome”.

Children are mysteriously falling ill at an orphanage. Candy Boy, the most valiant of the orphans, investigates, but the arrival of a new boarder complicates his inquiries.

Twenty-year-old Eugène is somewhat aimless and has not been doing well in university. He is staying in a small village for the summer. He awkwardly seduces Pierre, a slightly older man who is working for Mathilde as caretaker for the season. Pierre is initially open to the relationship, but quickly becomes reluctant to become too involved.

Eric is forced to spend his holidays on his grandfather's farm in the countryside. Bored out of his mind, an unexpected visit from over-the-top friends Mika and Koko, and the appearance of a hunky farmhand, pull Eric out of the doldrums.